“on the road again…”
3 mile Saturday. 3 miles this morning. Not
Signed up for the Grand Rapids River Bank run 10k and the Chicago 1/2 Marathon in September. Also participating in the ‘Warrior Dash’ in July. Probably do some 5k’s as well.
Hoping to dump 30 lbs. Not using the Nike tracking stuff since I’m running inside. Instead using the FitBit One for now.
Now I just need to figure out how to get the FitBit stats on the web site! They do have an API…Hmmmm…
See this article.
The subways that I’ve known in New York since the early 1990’s are nothing like this. New York has done a great job of cleaning up the subway system.
They are my favorite way of getting around New York…other than walking!
Say hello to Emmett.
The inspiration for his name comes from ‘Dr. Emmett Brown’ in the ‘Back to the Future’ movies. Check out his whiskers and eyebrows and you just might agree.
This was still a hard run. It was 91 degrees when I started and the climb up was pretty tough. For a comparison the first time I did this run it was…69 degrees. H.O.T.
Regardless, fun and a nice accomplishment.
So yesterday I did a ‘5 mile’ run that took 7 miles to complete. The run also included a 800 foot increase in elevation. So a bit tough for me.
Below is a portion of the route from Nike Plus. I managed to complete the first part of the run accidentally as I was checking to see where the heck I was. The first part of the run was from end of this run through Memory Grove.
Well, 98% done. Just have to touch up the black rails a bit.
Took my wife and I 18 hours over the weekend to apply Rustoleum’s Deck Restore product…that’s 2 coats.
We applied it with 4″ rollers and applied it slowly. That avoided wasting a lot of the material and splattering it all over. Going slow also makes the material ‘spike’ less. That means that the natural ridging of the material is rounded off and you don’t have to follow along with a brush to smooth it out. My advice to you is to read and then follow the instructions and go slow.
If you’re curious why 4″ rollers…the deck was built in the early 1990’s and the decking is 2″ x 4″ boards rather than the 1″ x 6″ boards which became the standard later on. If we had a 1″ x 6″ boards I would have used a 4″ roller, cut down the 6″ rollers to fit and capped the end of the roller.
Hoping that we’ll get about 5 more year of use out of the deck before I have to tear it apart.
All in all pretty happy with the result.
Before
After
Did a nice run through Denver today. Ran the Cherry Creek trail. Beautiful place to run.
Starting to get back into the whole running thing again. Here are the latest stats. John B. was telling me that I should get used to being number 2 on the list.
Guess not…and I haven’t even got started. I have a triathlon to run in September.
Look out!
